NAHBS 2013 - Massive highlight gallery, part one

NAHBS 2013 - Massive highlight gallery, part one

Argonaut Cycles has won NAHBS awards in the past for its steel bikes but it now works exclusively in custom carbon fiber.

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Dean operations manager Rich Gardunia designed this townie for himself - and it just barely got completed in time for the show.

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The split in the seat stay allows the belt to be inserted into the rear triangle.

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Anyone else want a Feedback Sports toilet paper holder?

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Festka Bicycle Company goes full-pink with this road bike.

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Pink was definitely the theme at the Festka Bicycle Company booth at NAHBS. This limited-edition Pablo XCR model is built with Columbus XCR stainless steel tubing. Paint was apparently inspired by Pablo Picasso.

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Oh. My. God.

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Hidden beneath the chrome paint on this Festka track bike is a 3T Palladio seatpost and Selle Italia saddle. Wow.

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Form Cycles drew a crowd with this titanium fat bike.

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Titanium stays wrap around enormous 45NRTH tires on this Form Cycles fat bike.

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Apt name for sure.

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Groovy.

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Form draped this titanium 29er hardtail in an eye-catching paint job.

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Welding on this fork is done in-house by Dean but the aluminum crown comes from White Industries.

Instead of a simple split, Groovy Cycleworks uses a removable T-shaped plug in case someone wants to use a belt drive.

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This Japanese Gokiso hub is ungodly smooth. If you look closely, you can see that the flange is suspended from the hub body, which is in turn suspended from the bearings by another internal sleeve so as to eliminate the influence of spoke tension on the bearings.

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You can see right underneath the flange on this Gokiso hub.

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A closer look at the amazing internal design of Gokiso's ultra-low friction hub.

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So how low-friction are Gokiso hubs? The company balanced this wheel perfectly and all it took was a quick-release spring to set it into motion.

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The aluminum freehub body and super-wide pawl on Gokiso's rear hub.

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Gokiso's hubs require an incredible amount of machining.

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This Gokiso hub doesn't look like much from the outside but the engineering that went into it is incredible.

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Groovy Cycleworks had among its impressive collection at NAHBS this classically inspired 29er hardtail.

44mm-diameter head tubes are commonplace nowadays but their roots can be traced back to the handmade crowd and Sean Cheney of Vertigo Cycles.

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Yet another disc-equipped 'cross bike, this time from Co-Motion Cycles.

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Co-Motion tucks the rear caliper neatly inside the rear triangle.

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Co-Motion decked this tandem out with every available option.

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The polished stainless steel rear dropout features a tidy disc mount and dedicated geometry for a Rohloff rear hub.

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The Rohloff Snubber isn't designed to tension the Gates Carbon Drive belt. Instead, it acts as a guard to keep it from skipping under load. In normal operation, the roller doesn't even contact the belt.

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Co-Motion built this showpiece with an extended, 44mm-diameter head tube. The power cable from the dynamo front hub is routed up through the steerer.

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Co-Motion showed off this CityView townie with Shimano's latest Alfine Di2 electronic group and a custom machined cog for the Gates Carbon Drive belt.

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Co-Motion discovered the hard way that the standard Gates Carbon Drive Centertrack cog wouldn't work with the new Alfine Di2 rear hub - so the company machined its own.

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The Alfine Di2 battery is mounted beneath the down tube on this decked-out Co-Motion CityView townie.